Buckman Tavern

Buckman Tavern is a historic tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts. The tavern was built in 1710 by the Muzzey family, and the Buckman family came to own the tavern by the time of the American Revolutionary War. On 19 April 1775, during the Battle of Lexington, Captain John Parker's company of militia left the tavern to assemble on the Lexington Common, where the first shot of the war was fired. In 1813, the tavern came to host the town's first post office, and it maintained the same interior for centuries. In 1961, the tavern became a National Historic Landmark.